The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS or THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Fight in the Methodist Church at
Sparta Unsuccessful.
GEORGIA
The slate quarrieS in Polk county are all
busy.
A graduate of the Naval Academy at
Annapolis is now selling beef in Athens.
In Hancock county oats and wheat are
much more promising since the recent rains.
Col. Jim Smith, of Oglethorpe county,
had fifty hands planting watermelons Fri
day
Col John T. Waterman. former editor and
proprietor of the Griffin Sun, has purchased
the ThomaSton Times.
Louis Meyerhardt, of Rome, has been APP
pointed special agent of the United States
Pension Office, at salary Of s., 500 a year
and expenses.
Athens Banner Waterman: A very Sc
rious and grave charge is made against
prominent young professional in neighbor-
ing county, and the walls of the peniten-
tiary loom zap behind it.
The commencement sermon of Mercer
University at Macon will be delivered by a
distinguished divine. Rev. F. NJ Ellis.
DID, Baltimore, Md, has accepted the in
Vitation of the faculty to deliver the sermon.
Hon w. d. Kelley, member of Congress
from Pennsylvania, who is making q tour
of the mineral regions of the South, spoke
at Rome Saturday night. His speech was
full of praise for the South and in advocacy
of the protective tariff policy.
William Lowery, of Polk county, expert
mented with lump of dirt recently that
came out of cave ON his place by putting
It under has cotton last year, and he says
that the cotton manured with this dirt pro-
duced more cotton than that containing
guano.
The question of using the organ in the
Methodist church at Sparta was carried be-
fore the quarterly conference by appeal. but
The Presiding Elder decided that he had no
jurisdiction in the matter so that instru-
mert VIII be hereafter used in the regular
church serviceG
A runaway couple passed through Rock
mart Sunday making their way to Carriers
Vile TO get license to marry, the officials of
Polk having been notified not to grant them
However, the young 15-year-old chap was
captured by bis father before the license
ewere obtained Thus the young widow lost
her prize.
Rockmart ,Slqte:: The SAVANNAH MORN
lING NEWS, the best news and family paper
u the State or South, has donned a new and
handsome dress. The NEWS does not brag
and blow in double-leaded articles over its
new dress. In fact, if you want a paper
that is clean and bright and Democratic to
The core-fElth no protection nonsense-get
the NEWS
One of the queerestsof optical illusions is
that at a water tank on the Marietta and
North eteorgia railroad, a mile or two south
of CANYON. The water Is brought from a
Jhillsidse stream in plank trough to the tank,
and tlis trough from the hillside to the top
of tFle tank appears to be the highest at the
enQ of the tank, and to person looking on
the water below, or standing by the trough,
TIE water appears to be running up hill The
Illusion is as complete as it is remarkable.
The body of A. D. Clinard was found Sat
tlrday at Fosters landing, about thirty-fve
miles from Rome. The body was found at
2 o'clock in the afternoon by Eddie Giles. a
small boy. It had been floating and had
lodged under some willow bushes. There
was found in his pocket check on Printup
Bro. s bank for So, and letter of recent
date from some friend in Cave Springs sign
Ing himself Robert. Decomposition had set
in but little. The deceased will be remem-
bered as the hotel-proprfetor of Rome who
mysteriously disappeared but the finding of
whose hat on the river bank left little doubt
that he had committed suicide on account of
financial troubles
A printer arrived at Macon one day last
week and for the short time he worked made
81. When he drew his pay he found three
things necessary--to send some of the money
to his family, to pay his board here and to
replenish his wardrobe. To accomplish the
AQlGt t11UGS ue uIu WHdU peT0Al)S Was never
done before. He started out in town to see
what he could do in the way of making him
Self presentable and at one store he bought
IA pair of shoes and pair of socks for Csc
.atlanother store he bought a coat, vest and
ptnts of midsummer pattern for 81 l5,
making the cost of the entire outfit 81 So
" 1t is only in the Sunny South that such ex-
IRENE economy can be practiced
4 While street car was waiting at the cor
ax,l
Macon, Sunday afternoon, for another car.
la negro woman, who was taking care of a
little boy about or years old, placed the
child in the car evidently for the purpose of
giving TIA ride around the belt. The driver
drought the child was in charge OF some of
his passengers, and thought nothing about
Is until it was left alone in the car. The
thild was too young to tell anything about
Itself, and the driver reported the matter to
Officer Gardner, telling him that he thought
lit got on at the corner named. The officer
rode to the corner and got off, and as he did
70 the nurse called out to the child: 'F'
Saturday the Rome Land Company CON
tracted with w. G. Welty, lately of the
Morse Bridge Works, YOUNGSTOWN. O.. for
the erection of plant for the building OF the
bridges. Work Is to be begun within thirty
days and manufactured goods are to be
turned out by the latter part of the present
year. The capital stock will be about
kTo,UU0 ana une number or men that will be
given employment will be between 100 and
$50. Mr.. Welty, who viii probably have
charge of the works, is an experienced
bridge man. It was he who made the con-
tract between the county of Floyd and the
Morse Bridge Company for the erection of
The Broad street and Howard street bridges.
G. w. Evitt, prominent merchant of
Cedar Grove, Walker county, is in the habit
of storing large sums of money consisting
OF bills and silver, in ell sorts of queer and
unlocked for hiding places in different parts
of his house, having over s., 900 stored away
an this manner Last Saturday morning,
when all the family had occasion to leave
the house for short time, Abe Woodall
young man employed ON the place, having
learned OF the hiding place of the money,
accepted the opportunity for charging his
pxchequer, and going to an old musty sat-
chel which hung III an ante-room, he took
roll of bills, amounting TO $500 ard made
way with it. As it happened Evitt had oc.
casion to use some money that evening and
went to that strange depository to get il.
Judge his surprise in finding il empty He
at once suspicioned Woodall and had him
arrested Woodall stoutly denied his guilt
until being promised a release for a confess
a. 1.